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PAD PLATE FOR HARNESS SADDLES.

No. 379,606. Patented Mar. 20, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Germs.

FREDRIOK REHKOPF, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

PAD-PLATE FOR HARNESS-SADDLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 379,606, dated March 20, 1888.

Application filed October 2-2, 1887. Serial No. 253,136.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDRIOK REHKOPF, of Memphis, in the county of Shelby and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pad-Plates for Harness-Saddles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My present invention is a further improvement on that described in my application for United States patent, Serial N 0. 245,742, filed on or about July 30, 1887, and allowed October 13, 1887; and the nature of the improvements will plainly appear from the following.

Figure 1 is a side view of my improved saddle; Fig. 2, a front view of the top plate; Fig. 3, a central section of one of the side plates; Fig. 4, aplan of the plate (before being bent) forming the box for the reception of the end of the checkrein hook; Fig. 5, a plan of one of the side plates before being hinged to the top plate.

The entire pad-plate has, as heretofore, a top piece, 1, and two side pieces, 2 3, hung respectively thereto; but each of these side pieces is connected to the top piece by casting or otherwise, making a long slot, 4, in the side of the top piece, and then inserting therein and bending to about a hollow cylindrical shape a tongue-like projection, 5, made in the pieces 2 and 3, respectively, thus constituting a hinge attachment by means of the two parts thus connected, and dispensing with any separate pintle or pin, which is liable to work loose or needs to be headed, and also dispensing with any tubular portions on the top piece to receive such pintle.

Instead of putting friction-rollers 6 in the loops 7, I make a slot, 8, in the plate, of asize sufficient to receive these long frictional rollers, and make a small indentation or socket, 9, at each end of such slot, adapted as a half journal-box to receive the bearing ends of the wire or red 10, on which these rollers are held, thus bringing the rollers nearly flush with the surface of the plate, but each projecting just (N0 model.)

enough above it to perform its duty for the back-strap 11 to ride free upon. These rollers are then held to place by the loops 7 when the latter are screwed to place. These loops have cuts, indentations, orthe like, serving also as half journal-boxes for the rod 10. The arrangement of friction-rollers, besides the advantage of locating them in the most desirable place and so as not to bear up or lift the strap needlessly high, does away with drilling holes in the loops to receive them, and allows them to be readily removed or exchanged for others at will by simply loosening the loops.

The roller 12 at the top of the saddle-plate is made solid with its journals, and is held to place in a similar manner by means of half sockets or journal -boxes made in the parts which support and retain it. The screws 13, which fasten the loops to the plate, are provided with long nuts 14, each having a hole near each end, whereby the pads may be firmly secured to the plates and the rollers held to place.

At the top a plate, 15, bent into the form of three sides of a quadrangle or box, is secured to the top piece, 1, in about the position shown, and a portion, 16, projecting therefrom is bent down, as shown at 17. To the underside ofthe top of this plate 15 is fastened, by a screw, 18, and nut, the hook 19, and'the same screw and not also fasten the bent plate 20 to the upper side of this plate 15. In the downwardlybent part of plate 20 is a halfbearing for the rod of one end of the frictionroller 12, the corresponding half-bearing being in the top piece, 1. The other end of this rod is held in half-bearings made insaid top piece, 1, and in the lower part the above-named portion 16.

The plate 20 extends backward beyond the roller 12 and terminates in a tail-piece, 21.

I claim 1. The combination herein described, with a metallic pad plate for harness saddles and with aloop thereon for a back-strap, of a friction-roller lodged in a slot made in the plate, and having its journal or axial rod held in place by the loop attached to the plate, all substantially as shown and described.

2. In combination with the sideplates,slotted as described, and with their loops, half journal-bearings made both in the plate andin the l the longitudinal slots 4, the side pieces, 2 3, 1o loop, and the axial rods of the rollers resting conncctedtherewith by theircylindrically-bent V in such bearings, all as shown and described. ends, all as shown and described.

3. In combination with the top piece, 1, of i FREDRICK REHKOPF.

5 the pad-plate, the upward1y-projecting bent Witnesses:

plate 15, the hook 19, bent plate 20, and fl'l0-- O. A. BURR, tion-roller 21, all substantially as shown and WM. F. WIPPER, described. 0. A. GRIsWoLD,

4. In combination with the piece 1, having NAT. GoLDsTEIN. 

